The Kindle Store and the Discovery of THE Book Which Lead to Many Other Things

I was browsing the Kindle Store for some books for my lonely (2nd) Kindle (everything that I had on it disappeared after I [finally] transferred it to my old Amazon account. The only word I could say; Sh*t. ...And yeah it has to be censored.)

After buying what I was actually looking for, which was Ranger's Apprentice Book 11: The Lost Stories, I went browsing some more.

I ended up putting a whole bunch of Japanese-related books and documents into my Wish List.
And let's just say my Wish List is not small. =*=

I was still in my "Let's Prepare so That I Won't Fail Too Badly in Thailand" Phrase which I still am in right now, so I went searching for some books on "Thai history".

I found a biography on our current king; Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley called The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej.

I have yet to finish this book; I'm not any where near finishing the book. According to my Kindle, I'm only 2% through. == Damn, it's extremely long. Well, His majesty has lived for over 80 years after all.
(...And now I also have 100 or so more fanfictions on it that I haven't read yet... I downloaded them all at once using Flag Fic... and now I won't ever be bored! 8D)

Anyway!

Let's just say I'm one of those many many people who "worships" his majesty without question.

Apparently the book points out the "real story" and how he's not like a selfless walking deity like most Thais believe him to be. =="

Personally, I think His Majesty is human... but in my mind he is also quite close to being a "selfless walking deity". I've heard great stories about him; how great he is, he much of a genius he is, how he does great things without thinking of anything in return, and so on. I'd never once had a second thought about the fact that there may be "more to the story", but I couldn't really care about that. xP He is awesome and will always be. >.> (Seriously... I'd just used the word "awesome" to describe His Majesty... I have such nerve...)

By the way, I'm trying to only write positive things (not that I have anything negative to say, but I just want to point this out just for the sake of it xP); or if they're negative, I'll be vague. Insulting the monarchy can throw someone up to 10 years into prison in Thailand. xP They have extremely strict lese majeste laws there...
(I read somewhere that a couple of people have been arrested for saying bad stuff about the monarchy on their blogs as well as translating the The King Never Smiles into Thai and posting it online since the book is banned in Thailand for several reasons.)

I like how the person who wrote the summary for the The King Never Smiles worded this; "Early on, Handley declares that current king of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej's restoration of the Thai monarchy is, in fact, "one of the great untold stories of the 20th century." "
I like that sentence. It's cool. >.>

...That sentence alone inspired me to buy the book and read it. Plus, it makes things more interesting when the book is actually banned in Thailand. ==

That's one thing I've got to thank Australia for (?).

Apparently the book has been given much praise, but I myself have not read even half of the book so I cannot say much about it; and if I do, I'm scared of getting thrown in prison one day... but the Thai authorities won't read a random English blog, right? ><
Hopefully not.

But even though I've only read 2% of the book so far, a couple of parts had already ticked me off slightly. (But I'd ignored it since my opinion is very likely biased) such as Handley saying "Bhumibol thought that he could become a good king by being selfless and following the djhammara (or something like that ==) beliefs."
<PLEASE NOTE THAT that was NOT the exact wording written in the book.>
But the way he'd phrased that sentence in the book made it sound slightly negative, like that what His Majesty did was absolutely pointless and wrong... but that probably wasn't his intended meaning. ...I wouldn't think so. :/
THE PROBLEM IS, you see, the book... is written in such a way that I can barely understand it without looking at a dictionary every 2 to 3 seconds. ==
That's annoying me, but the content is very interesting. :)
Although I do get a little ticked off every now and then, I think that's just because I'm biased... I think. :/ I don't really know... but I think so, since a couple of the reviewers said that "it did not make them respect the king less at all"...
Hmm...
It makes it worse since it's really hard for me to understand such complex sentences. Dx

So then.
I kept reading, found something, then said to my mum, "What was that about a massacre in blahblahblah university in October in the past?"
Mum, "Oh that. People were shooting each other because blah blah blah." < Apparently, she was there. O.o No, she went, she was going there, but then decided to turn back before reaching [heard there was a traffic jam and everything]. ==
We continued talking about the [Modern] history of Thailand for a while.

My mum; " =*= Thailand's going nowhere because of all those corrupted and terrible politicians. If the King isn't here, then Thailand's doomed." < That's me saying that, actually. She used a different wording. >.> (I can't quote her directly anyway - you wouldn't be able to understand it! ><)
I don't know much about Thailand's politics, social economy, financial economy, and so on, but I couldn't disagree... I think I agree, actually... (according to Wikipedia and somewhere else, Thailand's economy dropped by 2% or something when His Majesty had to stay in the hospital - he's still in the hospital, btw...)
...Besides, to me, politics is such a troublesome and depressing issue.
So very annoying . :/

...

Long live the king.

Please don't let Thailand be doomed too soon.


Another pointless and random post. :/

Worldwide Fame >.>

Please just ignore that senseless title.

After reading this post, I thought I might as well go check my status as well. :/ ...and 8 people has used the Kindle to view my blog! 8D
...It was probably mostly me, although I don't think I did it as many as 8 times... :/ Hnnm...

Australia: 201 people (all time) ...
Russia: 164 people (all time)
etc.

My first reaction was: Russia? O.o Why would people from Russia want to read my blog? HEck, why would anyone want to read my blog??

Not surprisingly, over 70% are Windows. ==
How many people in this world can even afford a Mac anyway? And how many people actually know about Linux/es? ...do they? O.o

Aaah... this post was another pointless one.